{"id":14741,"date":"2010-11-01T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14741"},"modified":"2010-11-01T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:22:23","slug":"top-five-reasons-dayton-should-not-be-governor-1-malaise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14741","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Reasons Dayton Should Not<\/i> Be Governor – #1: Malaise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we examined how Mark Dayton would endeavor to move Minnesota backward – to try to go Back to the Seventies for its economic model.<\/p>\n

And that’s if everything goes perfectly – which it can not.<\/p>\n

But it’s so much worse than that.<\/p>\n

Mark Dayton, and the Democratic Farmer\/Labor Party, wants Minnesota to not only look backwards <\/em>forty years for its model – but they want Minnesota to look at the sidewalk in front of its feet as it shuffles forward into history.<\/p>\n

The DFL in Minnesota – and the state’s once-very-liberal Republican party – have a vision of government that, to take the Dayton campaign at its word, has three messages:<\/p>\n

3. Attack the most convenient scapegoats.<\/strong> During tough economic times, “the rich” are a convenient set of scapegoats.<\/p>\n

2. Focus on short-term outcomes<\/strong>: The old saying goes “Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; show a man how to fish, he eats forever”.\u00a0 Mark Dayton’s campaign is all about creating a large, elaborate, unionized and exquisitely expensive infrastructure to hand out fish in all its metaphorical forms, while making the art of fishing that much harder for them to master.<\/p>\n

1. Above all, keep government fat and happy<\/strong>. Mark Dayton’s axiom for Minnesota, if you take\u00a0 his campaign at face value, is this; satisfying the wants of Minnesota’s professional and vocational Governing Class is the supreme mission of government<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And history shows us that a state – in the general or United sense – that focuses on these priorities can not survive, <\/em><\/strong>much less thrive.<\/p>\n

At the very least, these priorities pound society into a master-servant relationship – with government as the master.\u00a0 A benevolent master, mostly, doling out little bits of satisfaction – fish, if you will – to keep the peasants mollified, but a master nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Like a cattledriver and his cattle.<\/p>\n

Are you happy to moo for a better Minnesota?<\/p>\n

Minnesota deserves better.<\/p>\n

Because in its truest form, America is about better<\/em>.\u00a0 America in its truest form is not a bunch of serfs serving its lords and masters.\u00a0 It is a free association of equals, governing itself by consent of the governed, with a government that takes care of its appointed roles and otherwise gets the hell out of the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Dayton, at his very best<\/em>, is a throwback to an era that not only can not come back<\/a> – it must not come back.<\/p>\n

So tomorrow, Minnesota, let us deserve better.<\/p>\n

Previous Reasons Dayton Should Not Be Governor<\/strong><\/p>\n